TMN Headlines are back as a daily newsletter and post.

Around this time last year, we relaunched The Morning News with a stronger focus on our Headlines, expanding that column into our entire homepage feed. By far, the loudest feedback we heard from readers (aside from derision for the infinite scroll, of which we will never speak again) was: We want the old Headlines column back.

Headlines, it’s true, have always anchored our homepage—initially as a daily blog post within a continuous feed of other updates; then as an ever-present block at the top of the site; then aligned to the right side of the homepage, where it survived for many redesigns; and now, today, as the entire homepage.

But it wasn’t the same, and we knew it wasn’t, and we knew why: Headlines-as-homepage were no longer a quick-hit absorption of the day’s news (and non-news). Still, offering a speedy briefing has always been an essential aspect of our Headlines, so we’re bringing them back in two convenient formats: a daily newsletter as well as a post here on TMN that you can access through Facebook, Twitter, and RSS. Both editions are the same—just use whichever fits your habits the best—and arrive Tuesday through Saturday mornings. (The Morning News Headlines, in fact, began as an email newsletter in 1999, and now they're back in an email newsletter, where they feel right at home once again—fancy that.) Have a look, sign up, and please let us know what you think.

“If people think they’ve seen the last of Roy Moore, they are sorely mistaken,” a visibly devastated Moore said. “I’m going to get back up, dust myself off, and head on over to the good ol’ Gadsden Mall.”

The simulation argument is appealing, in part, because it gives atheists a way to talk about spirituality. The idea that we’re living in only a part of reality, with the whole permanently beyond our reach, can be a source of awe.

In case you missed it, a fun one from last year: “What are the odds we are living in a computer simulation?”